7,000 killed, not all at once, one by one!!!!.... puts things in perspective concerning our own war on terror. At Memorial In Bosnia, Clinton Helps Mourn 7,000 By REUTERS REBRENICA, Bosnia, Sept. 20 (Reuters) — Former President Bill Clinton inaugurated a memorial today to thousands of Muslim victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, and he called for the arrest of fugitive leaders accused in the atrocity. About 20,000 people welcomed Mr. Clinton at a large complex due to become the final resting place for the victims of the massacre, the worst organized slaughter in Europe since World War II. "Bad people who lusted for power killed those good people simply because of who they were," Mr. Clinton said, standing before a pagoda-style temple dominating the memorial. "They sought power through genocide." Families of some of the more than 7,000 people killed wanted Mr. Clinton to open the shrine because of his efforts to end the 1992-95 war that killed about 200,000 people. Many wept as the remains of 107 victims were laid to rest alongside 882 already buried here, among them four members of the Delic family: three brothers and their father, the youngest 17 and the oldest 75. Columns of men, relatives of the dead, bore coffins draped in Islamic green. A stone inscribed "Srebrenica, July 11 1995" was covered with bouquets. The memorial, in a meadow near where Bosnian Serb troops separated women and children from the men, is designed like a flower, with rows of graves for petals. The Muslims were killed by the Bosnian Serb Army under Gen. Ratko Mladic after his forces captured Srebrenica, a predominantly Muslim town that had been declared a United Nations "safe area." General Mladic and Radovan Karadzic, the wartime Bosnian Serb leader, have been indicted by the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague for genocide in Srebrenica and in the siege of Sarajevo. Both remain at large eight years after the war ended. "Those most responsible for the atrocities, the leaders, have not been apprehended," Mr. Clinton said. "The search for them must continue until they are." Mr. Clinton, who visited Kosovo on Friday where he was greeted by enthusiastic crowds of Kosovo Albanians, said he hoped the memorial would foster the return of Muslims to Srebrenica, where they accounted for 95 percent of the population before the conflict. About 4,000 people have returned to the area, while more than 5,500 body bags with the remains of other Srebrenica victims are stored in a refrigerated morgue awaiting identification. Biba Delic, 37, with her two children, wept as the body of her husband, Aziz, was brought in for burial alongside his two brothers and father. "Today I am burying my husband and with him I am burying hope," she said, weeping and hugging her son and daughter. "The day we identified him, my hope that I might see him ever again died. I wish I could still hope."
